July 13, 2011
Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
Bethany Allen
Threadless, Chicago
312-415-0161
bethanys@threadless.com
RELEASE: 11-226
NASA SUPPORTS COMPETITION TO CREATE OUT OF THIS WORLD T-SHIRT DESIGN
WASHINGTON – NASA, through the Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory, is
supporting an online challenge for artists to design a T-shirt
commemorating the final space shuttle mission and the program's
contributions to exploration.
The challenge is run by Threadless, an online design site, and the
Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory. The lab is administered by
Harvard University, which is under contract to NASA to study crowd
sourced innovation that leads to tournaments for scientific and
engineering challenges.
Threadless, an online community of amateur and professional designers,
is challenging its 1.5 million international artists and the public
to design a shirt about "The Final Frontier" by July 22. Threadless
will produce the design chosen through online votes. The chosen
designer will receive a $500 cash prize, a $500 Threadless gift
certificate and a shuttle-flown patch from his or her home country.
The Harvard-NASA Tournament Laboratory will provide the patch.
For more information about the final space shuttle mission and the
shuttle program, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
For more information about the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/ntl/
To submit a design, vote or view current submissions, visit Threadless
at:
http://atrium.threadless.com/nasa/
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